How large is your iPhoto catalog? Are you able to import selected albums(a few of them) from Import from iPhoto dialog? There is an option in the dialog for that. if you click More option, you would see a listing of albums and events. You can selectively import them to Organizer. Please let me know if you are able to import from a few albums selected.

I am also having this problem. I have tried importing the entire library, then a small event. Neither works. I have left the program running for over 2 hours to see if it would work and it does not. I have been able to manually drag and drop photos from the iPhoto window into PSE 9 Organizer if I create an empty album and then select the photos in iPhoto and drag and drop to the Organizer window. It them imports the photos. Then I must select the photos I want and drop them into the new album I created. Very cumbersome. I must say that this a lot of trouble, especially when you have almost 5000 photos to move to PSE.

Just tried something different which overcomes this problem. In Organizer click the Display icon on the top right of the window and choose Folder location instead of thumbnail view. The iPhoto files and folders them show on the left column in Organizer, then right click the folder you want and choose "import into organizer". Once this is done click the "create instant album" icon in the center Organizer column and voila..you have imported the album on photos successfully.

Unfortunately, unless you have a referenced iphoto library, this is not good to do. If you are pointing the organizer to files in the iphoto library and letting it write there (the Import from iphoto option is designed to avoid doing this), you are going to corrupt your iphoto library, which can't stand much touching from outside iphoto itself. You could lose your photos.

Import from iPhoto does not touch the iPhoto library and cannot corrupt it as it creates separate copies of the images in the folder that one specifies in the preference for saved files in the Organizer. So not by any chances, the iPhoto library should get corrupted. Please let us know if you are facing any issues with your iPhoto catalog.

I'm talking about the fact that it appears from jcazakoff's last post that possibly he or she made an end run around the import from iphoto command and is maybe using plain old Get Photos on the folders in the iphoto library, which would be a Bad Thing.

Could you please attach the logs for the hang. You can get them while the application is hanging and you open Process monitor, select Adobe Elements 9 Organizer exe and click on "Sample Process" on the top. Please attach these logs so that we can look closely at them We appreciate your help.

Yes Barbara. You are indeed correct. Importing from the iPhoto library through normal import command may lead to some problems as user would be further editing the pictures in Organizer which would get created in iPhoto library folder by default which may cause issues. So ideal would be to use import from iPhoto command specifically.

Actually neither of the two methods seems to write anything over the originals in the iPhoto Library. I have done checks of both methods and made edits of some photos which I then saved in PSE 9. The edited images are saved as edited copies and the original iPhoto data is not altered. I reopened iPhoto and the original was there untouched. I would much rather use the import from iPhoto dialogue but it does not seem to work. So if someone has an answer, it would be great.

BTW when I used the "folder display" method, organizer "showed" the animation of files being "imported" on the display, so I don't think that there is any damage done to the data and it imported correctly. No other problems yet anyway.

After studying the logs and investigating it further with the help of one of the users(Richard Leake) facing this issue, we could see that the copying of the data(17-20GB) of files is taking the most of the time. After a wait of 16 minutes, Richard was able to import these files into Organizer.

Importing from folder view imports only the files. File metadata, albums, tags and events do not get imported. Importing from iPhoto imports all the metadata, tags, albums, events etc.

Regarding your point about writing in iPhoto library, we create copies of all files from iPhoto in order to avoid corruption of iPhoto library. Since user can edit a file in PSE 9 with the same name through PSE Editor, so it was not good to overwrite anything in iPhoto library.

I had the same problem as the others are experiencing...I downloaded trial version of PSE9 and at the point when the Organizer was ready to upload photos from my iphoto I got the spinning beach ball that lasted forever until I finally gave up and "force quit" the program. After going through this process 3 different times and receiving the same results I lost my entire iphoto library! I have not been able to locate my entire iphoto library anywhere at this point and it is not in the organizer. I was able to find some of my pictures on the hard drive but not all of them? Thankfully, I did have most everything backed up online. I did sent a report when the error occurred as prompted on the screen, however I was hoping someone might direct to me to where (if anywhere) all of my pictures from iphoto might be on my hard drive?

Any ideas when a fix will be available for this...thus far I feel it is useless to me if I cannot get my photos in pse to edit...and honestly I am fearful of losing what I was able to find again my continuing to mess with the program.

The iphoto library is normally in your username>Pictures, unless you deliberately moved it. Be sure you are looking at a high enough level in your user folder, not in your username>library, for instance.

That is where I looked initially...thinking that they would still be there! Unfortunately, only about 4 albums were actually there and the others had vanished. I looked further and ended up finding most of my photos under username/pictures/Adobe/Organizer/iphoto library media/modified. Then there are two folders dated 2009 and 2010 with the majority of my photos in them. Also there is a folder underneath modified "originals" which also has some photos in it. This would suggest to me that my photos are in pse9 organizer...BUT they are not?? When I open up pse9 organizer...nothing is in the albums column??

Unfortunately I am not mac savvy enough to have moved my iphotos anywhere...I have been a windows user forever until last year so I am still learning the ins and outs of mac.

Unfortunately, only about 4 albums were actually there and the others had vanished.

Unless you went to the trouble of setting up a referenced library, the important file for iphoto is the one called iphoto library. Do not mess around with that file or go poking around in it from outside iphoto, or you will eventually have trouble, lots of it. Just look to see if it's there.

I only had approximately 3000 pictures in my iphoto library and they are all gone with the exception of what I have been able to locate in other folders on my computer...so tread carefully and make sure your pictures are backed up! I hope you have better luck with it than I have. Thus far I have been unsuccessful in getting pictures into organizer and being able to edit in pse 9.

I tried to get my library back but everytime I clicked on the program icon on my desk top a box opened up requesting that I create a "new library" or open a library, however nothing was listed in the box for me to select an existing library and there was no way for me to browse folders to locate a library elsewhere. I finally gave up and selected to start a new library to just get myself into the program. It would not even allow me into iphoto without selecting something. So I guess I will start my iphoto library over again

Unfortunately I am still not sure what to do about pse 9 or organizer at this point...not sure anyone else does either.

I had no idea!!! This is exactly what I was looking for...I am going to attempt this now and if it doesn't work then I will download the other option and try it that way. I finally was able to upload the iphoto library (about 2700 pics) that I pieced back together from the pictures I found elsewhere on my hard drive this afternoon to pse9 organizer! If only I can retrieve some of my missing photos and the other library...I would be so happy!

Since I uploaded the other iphoto library to pse9 organizer...things appear to be working smoothly!

Thanks so much for all of your suggestions and help. I will update if this works with rebuilding my old iphoto library!

I tried to import from iPhoto 11 and got the same message. "There is no media to import from iPhoto". My iPhoto Library has over 20000 photos in it and all is working fine in iPhoto. PSE 9 organizer has not worked properly right from the start with respect to importing from from iPhoto. Very disappointed in this program and have not heard anything about a fix to date. Tried to import jpegs from a folder on my desktop and that did not work either.

Just export the photos you want to import from iphoto, put them where you want to keep them, then use File>Get Folders to import them. I would strongly suggest making a test catalog first and trying it for a while to see how well it suits you. If it works as you wish, then you can export/import more photos.

Excuse me for getting into this as I abandoned iPhoto for Lightroom and PSE 8 some time ago but I don't see anyone bringing up the fact that Bridge, which is the "organizer" in reality, is just a data base and doesn't actually "import" images .. just points to them on the HD. Before, when PSE was used only as an editor the file went directly to PSE and not to Bridge. For those of us using a Mac the package structure of iPhoto isn't compatible without changing to the originals for the "organizer" to work, I THINK. After all, iPhoto is an organizer, just different since it went to the packages ..This is why Aperture works so well with iPhoto.

Now, before the world descends in wrath of anger .. I am not a nerd not particualr qualified other than through the agonies of trying to do what seemed intuitive only to find that the kids that develop this stuff have a different sense of "intuitive.:"

So my intention is to try to be helpful and hope everyone finds the answer to their particuar problem.. I have AppleCare on all my machines and my iPad just to avoid this sort of thing eventually after I have messed around for a week or so.

Barbara, not meaning to be Smart ... but "A rose by any other name is.."

The organizer in the PSE 8 for Windows or the PSE 9 in both has the same characteristics regardless of what it is called. They are both only data bases, as is the Catalog in Lightroom or Bridge in Phtoshop.

It is THIS that I was questioning as to how iPhoto with its package system can work with any of them without first exporting as "originals."

Has anyone checked with AppleCare or Adobe? So far the topic is one on one of folks with the same problem or answere from folks, like me, without the problem. But, I did run into it when I first started moving my iPhoto library to Lightroom